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U.S. info-sharing initiative called a flop Posted by Pile (4791 views) [E-Mail link] Nearly a year after its launch, a federal office created as a conduit for corporate America to provide the government with sensitive information about critical vulnerabilities has been all but rejected by the technology industry that helped conceive it. The Protected Critical Infrastructure Information program allows companies providing government services to report security problems but not get in trouble, or have their problems made public. There goes more than $5M of taxpayer money for an insulting program designed to protect corporations and the government, but not let the public know about important computer security issues. Interestingly enough, virtually none of the program participants, even Microsoft have filed any notices of vulnerabilities with the newly-created office. This may not bode well for the administration's upcoming project: the "Tell us if you murdered someone and haven't been caught" program.     Comments   Name: (change name for anonymous posting) Title: Comments:     1 Article displayed.

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